Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cajun injected smoked turkey breast. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Cajun Injected Smoked Turkey Breast is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Cajun Injected Smoked Turkey Breast is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cajun injected smoked turkey breast using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cajun Injected Smoked Turkey Breast:
- Take For the turkey:
- Take 1 (7-8 lb) turkey breast
- Prepare 2 1/2 tsp chili powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- Get 1 tsp ground black pepper
- Make ready 3/4 tsp sea salt
- Prepare 1/4 tsp cayenne powder (1/2 for more heat)
- Take 3 tbs warm water
- Get 1 tbs honey
- Make ready 1/3 cup oil (vegetable or light olive is best)
- Take Other supplies
- Prepare 1 bag charcoal (if smoker/grill is charcoal)
- Make ready 1 bag hickory, mesquite or apple wood chips
- Take Injector syringe with needle
- Get Smoker or large grill
- Prepare Water
- Get Smoker box (for gas grills)
- Get Grill thermometer
- Get Meat thermometer
Steps to make Cajun Injected Smoked Turkey Breast:
- Remove turkey breast from package, rinse and then pat dry with clean paper towels. Place on a large platter or foil lined cookie sheet, meat side up.
- In a mediun bowl mix together all the dry seasoning. Add the water and honey. Stir with fork to combine until honey is fully melted in. Slowly add oil while continuing to stir constantly.
- When everything is well incorporated set 1 tbs of mixture aside. Draw remaining mixture up into injector syringe and inject into turkey breast in several places all over until all of the mixture is used up. Rub reserved mixture all over skin.
- Soak wood chips in water for about 15 minutes while you prepare your smoker according to its user manual, or set up a grill for indirect heat if you do not have a smoker. Note: indirect heat means building your fire on one side of the kettle and placing meat over the empty space (usually filled with a "drip pan") on the other side to cook slowly.
- When the smoker reaches 300°F, place wood chips directly on coals (or into smoker box placed on flame for gas grills). Place turkey breast on grate and cover tightly with lid. Cook for 2 - 3 hrs, checking every 20 - 30 minutes, replacing coals and chips as needed. Turkey is done when internal temp reaches at least 165°f.
- When turkey breast is done remove from smoker, tent loosely with foil and let rest 20-30 minutes before carving.
- Note: If the turkey breast begins looking too brown but is not fully cooked you can either tent with foil while still on the smoker or transfer to a 300°F oven (again, tent with foil) to finish cooking.
So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food cajun injected smoked turkey breast recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am confident that you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
